The fastest growing and most competitive organizations in the world have no bureaucracies, no bosses, and no bullshit. In this groundbreaking book, technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on.
The fastest growing and most competitive organizations in the world have no bureaucracies, no bosses, and no bullshit.
The tomato sauce in your pantry. The raincoat in your closet. The smart TV hanging in your living room. What do all of these products have in common? Chances are they were created by organizations where colleagues self-allocate into teams based on intrinsic motivation. Where individuals self-manage their commitments to each other without the coercion of managers. And where teams launch new products and ventures on the market without the control of leaders.
These organizations represent a new, radically collaborative breed of corporation. Recently doubling in number and already comprising 8% of corporations around the world, scientists and researchers have discovered that radically collaborative organizations are more competitive on practically every meaningful financial measure. They enjoy higher market share, higher innovation, and higher customer satisfaction than their traditional corporate competitors—and they also enjoy higher engagement, loyalty, and motivation from their employees.
In this groundbreaking book, technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on. By combining the latest insights from organizational science, sociology, and psychology, he illuminates four imperatives that all radically collaborative organizations must embrace in order to succeed: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency gratification, and candid vulnerability.
“This book will challenge you! Matt Parker explores the often surprising frontiers of how organizations can run. He looks at thirteen businesses that have chosen to adopt organizational philosophies that may seem alien and strange, but when presented with fifty years of scholarly research are suddenly not so crazy after all.”
Management as we know it is a century-old, outdated technology; we need to radically reinvent how we organize and collaborate to rise to the challenges of our time, and this book offers some powerful tools for that journey. -- Brian J. Robertson, author of Holacracy, The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World
What I found most refreshing about this book is that it speaks to what is key and important to becoming a Radically Collaborative workplace and producing tangible results. And it's about how our world is going to metamorphosize from a system of domination to one of collaboration. -- Matt Perez, cofounder of Nearsoft and coauthor of RADICAL COMPANIES
Matt takes years of intuition and learnings from the bleeding edge of hypergrowth software organizations and codifies them in a framework that applies to any knowledge-work business. It's an exciting glimpse into the future of work we should all strive to achieve. -- Ross Hale, CEO, Artium
Matt K. Parker is a writer, speaker, researcher, and third-generation programmer. Over the last two decades, he's played a variety of roles inside the software industry, including developer, manager, director, and global head of engineering. He has specialized in hyper-iterative software practices for the last decade, and is currently researching the experience in consciousness of radically collaborative software makers. He lives in a small village in Connecticut with his wife and three children. You can contact him by visiting
Most knowledge workers experience high levels of stress, disempowerment, and alienation from their work and their coworkers. The picture of the overworked, stressed-out technology worker may be common, but it is far from inevitable. Technology thought-leader Matt K. Parker reveals the path to a new way of working.The radically collaborative framework creates a workplace environment of learning, caring, and safe-making, which leads organizations to out-innovate, out-recruit, and out-retain their competition. In the radically collaborative workplace, the organizational pyramid is inverted: Makers don't exist to support leaders. Leaders exist to support makers. This organizational inversion creates radical new structures for teams, leadership, and the organization as a whole. There are no loner programmers toiling away under fluorescent lights. Instead, fully autonomous, 100% customer-oriented teams come together to create a radically powerful, innovative, and caring organization with the power and drive to usher in a successful future.
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